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OF THE

PROVINCE OF CANADA

PASSED IN THE SESSION HELD IN THE

TWENTY-NINTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY

QUEEN VICTORIA

BEING THE FOURTH SESSION OF THE EIGHTH PARLIAMENT OF CANADA.

Begun and holden at Quebec, on the Eighth day of August, in the year of Our
Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-five.

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PRINTED BY MALCOLM CAMERON,

LAW PRINTER TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

Anno Domini, 1865.

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ANNO VICESIMO-NONO

VICTORIA REGINE.

CAP. I.

An Act to amend the Act intituled: An Act containing special Provisions concerning both Houses of the Provincial Parliament.

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[Assented to 18th September, 1865.]

ER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Preamble, Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows:

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1. After the second sub-section of the seventh section of the New subsecAct, intituled: An Act containing special Provisions concerning tion added to both Houses of the Provincial Parliament, being the section Cen. Stat. of thereof relating to penalties on disqualified persons sitting or Can. c. 3. voting in the Provincial Parliament, shall be added the following as third, fourth and fifth sub-sections to the said section, that is to say:

3. In case any such action, suit or information be brought, Proceedings and judgment therein be recovered against the defendant, no after recovery of judgment. proceedings shall be had in any other such action, suit or information against the same person, for any such offence committed before the time of notice to him of the such judgment ;

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4. While any such action, suit or information pending, no other such action, suit or information brought against the same defendant;

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5. The Court where in any such other action, suit or infor- Proceedings in mation is brought, contrary to the intent and meaning of this tion may be Act, shall and may, upon the defendant's motion, stay the proceedings therein, if such first mentioned action, suit or information be prosecuted without fraud, and with effect; but no action, suit or information shall be deemed an action, suit or information within this Act, unless so prosecuted.

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CAP. II.

An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain sums of money required for defraying certain expenses of the Civil Government for the financial year ending thirtieth June, 1866, and for other purposes connected with the Public Service.

[Assented to 18th September, 1865.]

MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN:

7 HEREAS it appears by messages from His Excellency the Right Honorable Charles Stanley, Viscount Monck, Governor General of British North America, and Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over this Province of Canada, and the estimates accompanying the same, that the sums hereinafter mentioned are required to defray certain expenses of the Civil Government of this Province not otherwise provided for, for the financial year ending on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, and other purposes connected with the public service: May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, that,

1. From and out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of this Province, there shall and may be paid and applied, a sum not exceeding in the whole five million, six thousand, one hundred and forty-five dollars, and two cents, for defraying the several charges and expenses of the Civil Government of this Province, for the financial year ending on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, not otherwise provided for, and set forth in the Schedule to this Act, and for the other purposes therein mentioned.

2. The amount of such sums of money as may have been paid during the first quarter of the present financial year, for or on account of any of the services mentioned in the Schedule to this Act, out of the sum of two million dollars granted for such services by the Act passed in the now last session of the balance of vote Provincial Parliament, chapter three, shall be charged as having been paid out of the sums granted for such services by this Act, and the balance of the said grant of two million dollars after deducting the amount expended up to thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, as detailed in a statement laid before the Legislative Assembly, viz: one million six hundred and sixty-three thousand five hundred and sixty-seven dollars and twenty-four cents, shall be cancelled and returned to the Consolidated Revenue Fund.

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on credit of

3. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to authorize Loan of $1,000, the raising, by way of loan, on the credit of the Consolidated 000 authorized Revenue Fund of this Province, of a sum not exceeding one mil- Con. Rev. lion dollars, to be placed to the credit of the said Consolidated Fund. Revenue Fund, towards making good the sums charged on the said Fund by this Act, for the Public Service.

4. For the purpose of raising such sum as aforesaid, it shall How to be be lawful for the Governor in Council to authorize the sale of raised. Provincial Stock, or the issuing of Debentures, or both, to an amount not exceeding in the whole the sum last aforesaid; and any Debentures so to be issued may be in such form, for Rate of insuch separate sums, at such rate of interest, not exceeding six terest, &c. per cent. per annum, and the principal and interest thereon may be made payable at such periods and at such places, as to the Governor in Council shall seem most expedient; the said principal and interest being hereby made chargeable on the Consolidated Revenue Fund of this Province.

5. The sum of twenty thousand two hundred dollars appro- $20,200 out of priated by the Schedule to this Act for certain Gaols and Court Special Fund. Houses in Lower Canada, shall and may be paid and applied

out of the Lower Canada Building and Jury Fund, for the pur

poses mentioned in the said Schedule;

And the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars appropriated by $25,000 out of the said Schedule towards the enlargement of the Lunatic Asy- Special Fund. ¿ lum at Toronto, shall and may be paid and applied for that purpose out of the Upper Canada Building Fund.

6. Accounts in detail of the moneys expended under the Accounting authority of this Act, shall be laid before both Houses of the clause to ParLegislature of this Province at each Session thereof.

liament.

Majesty.

7. The due application of all moneys expended under the Accounting authority of this Act, shall be accounted for to Her Majesty, clause to Her Her Heirs and Successors, through the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, in such manner and form as Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors shall be pleased to direct.

SCHEDULE.

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